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Originally Posted by richvalle
A Robert Heinlein book (and one reason I didn't start the thread is that I have to look up the title to the book). Starts off with a guy going to a party, meets a girl, her father, the lady hosting the party...
…But the kicker was when the lady hosting the party asked the girl if she had had sex with her own father.
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My ghod, someone else tried reading
The Number of the Beast!
Or it could still be
Time Enough for Love, as suggested upthread. Heinlein was kind of … special that way.*
I still like much of his work anyway. Even some of the later stuff which was even more … special.†
* I personally chalk it up to late-in-life wish-fullfillment fantasy on his part: having the strong, ultra-healthy, ultra-fertile protagonist with no health problems who could solve everything and was always right and pioneered new worlds and stuff; whereas he was stuck with increasingly frail health and a declining space program and no kids due to infertility issues and a world where his views were kind of increasingly out-of-date and old-fashioned compared to shifting social change etc.
† I freely admit to often having trashy taste.
ETA: I should add that the most recent time I re-read my favourite Heinlein,
Citizen of the Galaxy, it held up pretty well. But some of his other stuff from the same period simply didn't impress me as much as it might have when I was 10, although in retrospect, I think some of it might not have impressed me much at all.
I should probably add that all his classic stuff was written well before I was born and I originally found them as the really old books in the school library shelf, so it's not really a case of nostalgia working on me, because they were already "retro" when I started reading.